I'm not the kind of guy who likes to rush things through. I like to take my time and finish when I'm finished.

I've always loved improvising. That's how I write songs. Creativity has an improvised element to it.

It's really hard to make something that doesn't sound like everything else.

If I don't keep my music varied I go a bit stir crazy, you know? If I don't have the opportunity to jump genres every now and again I feel I'm boxed-in.

I can see that in retrospect but I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me.

It's weird how things are really stop-start in my creative process. I can't just turn it on - it just happens kind of randomly and I've just got to ride it when it's good. Surf's up! It's like that.

I feel myself developing more and more of this soul voice, and...it's a mystery to me. Fundamentally, I just think because I feel it, it's alright.

I really wanted to maintain that bedroom philosophy to creating stuff.

People can rock together, people can do great things together, and that's what you love when you're working with characters and it's all going well.

I do my best to make music spontaneously. It's very personal in a way. It's really a direct connection between me and anyone who's watching. I don't want to be in my own bubble. I'm reaching out.

I stopped going out and taking pills and I started hanging out and learning about flat eleven chords.

So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world.And live your life.

Reimbursement may be sometimes small, but then great ability can never be measured by the tickets at the gate.

Before you organize you ought to analyze and see what the elements of the business are.

Jesus said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.' There are no exceptions. Baptism is a necessary ordinance.

The thing that attracted me to my husband was his pride. I'll never forget the first time I saw him, standing up on a hill, his hair blowing in the breeze - and he too proud to run and get it.

You don't want to buy a surprise, because then the surprise is how awful it looks on you.

When people have been traumatized, they are stuck in paralysis-the immobility reaction or abrupt explosions of rage.

Men should have rough hands and be strong.

We arc the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God.